The Old New Thing

Squeezing the last bit of enjoyment out of the lost half-inning of a baseball game

October 24, 2011 Oct 24, 2011 10/24/11

Raymond Chen

A colleague of mine complained, "When the home team is winning, they don't bother playing the bottom half of the ninth inning. I'm getting ripped off! Make them finish the game!" This led to some speculation as to how the visiting team could manage to salvage a win out of that final half-inning, given that they had no further opportunity to ...